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VAST WENDEL FORTUNE GOES TO CHARITIES $100,000,000 Estate Is Left by Spinster, Last of Wealthy Family. REAL ESTATE ON BLOCK Maxim on Which Success | Was Built Is to Be Violated. 5 ! BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Corresoondent NEW YORK. March 23.—The maxim “buy, but never sell New York, real estate.” on which the vast Wendcl fortune was built, is to be violated for the first time now that the last of the family has died and the gloomy, red mansion on Fifth avenue is vacant. The will of Miss Ella E. Von E. Wendel, the 80-year-old spinster who held out to the last against the rush and clamor of an age she did not understand, was filed for probate today. It provided that the Wendel fortune—etsimated at $100,000.000 — shall be scattered among charitable organizations, and that the family’s extensive real estate holdings here shall be liquidated to facilitate the distribution. Goes to Seminary The barred, red house, quite in the din of New York’s traffic, at the corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-ninth street, becomes a memorial to the late John G. Wendel and passes into the possession of the Drew Theological seminary at Madison, N. J. Thus did the will of the last Wendel assure that the ancestral home never would crumble under the assault of a wrecking crew to make way for the march of skyscrapers. The secrets of her. enthusiasms and interests which Miss Wendel guarded so carefully in life, become public knowledge with her death. The will discloses she was interested in the welfare of animals—and sizeable bequests are made to the New York and Massachusetts societies for the Prevention of C ruelty to animals. Church Is Remembered It reveals there was a genuine Jection between her and her servants who assisted her in preserving the atmosphere of a dead age in the red mansion, for all of them arc left money. Miss Wendel’s enthusiasm for animals was reflected in the line of poodles which she kept, acquiring new ones as the old ones died and calling all of them Tobey. The Methodist Episcopal church benefits under the will, and there is a bequest for a mission in Nanking. China. The blind and the crippled also will receive aid from the wealth that accumulated magically as the mushroom expansion of New York City sent real estate values soaring. Four Assert Claims After the specific gifts mentioned in the -will are disposed of the residuary estate will be divided into 200 equal shares for distribution to charitable organizations. There are four claimants—three in Indiana and one in Rhode Island—to shares in the estate, all asserting relationship to the family. They have announced they are prepared to begin legal action for their shares, but attorneys for the estate indicate doubt that the claims can be maintained. The four claimants are: Alexander Wendel, Jeffersonville, Ind.; his two children, Mrs. Celia May Wendel Cavanaugh and Charles Wendel, and Mrs. Mabel Haywood. a widow of Providence, R. 1., who claims Wendel supposedly a bachelor, marled her grandmother, Hannah Holt in East Greenwich, N. Y., on July 10, 1855. REASSEMBLE TEST CARS 13 Autos Prepared for Economy Run at Speedway. First of a series of 1.000 mile oil and gasoline economy tests to be conducted by the American Automobile Association and Standard Oil Company of Indiana will be started at the Indianapolis motor speedway at 8 Tuesday. The thirteen stock cars in the test were being reassembled today, having been tom down to check wear after a preliminary, or breakin run of 2.000 miles last week. OPPOSE ~CUT IN WAGIs Labor Forces Pledged to Fight Any Reductions, Says Green. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 23,-Or-g&nized labor will fight any attempt to lower existing wages, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said today.

Costly Chow By United Press WASHINGTON. March 23. Harold S. Asken, FarmviUe, N. C., found his affairs in just that state today. Sunday night, after eating in a chop suey restaurant, he kicked a hole in the plateglass door by way of registering a protest against the size of his check. Police say his chow mein now will cost him out of aH proportion to its real value.

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 270

Parole Spurned; Killer Will Be ‘Given Gate ’

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Ermil (French) Balanescu and Ids mother. Mrs. Anna Balanescu are shown at the right. At left is Dorothy Kirk, his dead sweetheart.

By SEA Service /CLEVELAND, March 23.—The state of Ohio now- faces the unique problem of having to forcibly eject a man from one of its prisons. Rather than accept a proffered parole which would imply that he was guilty of killing his pretty young sweetheart four years ago, Ermil (Frcnchy) Balanescu prefers to remain in Mansfield reformatory and finish out his twenty-year term. State officials announce they will release Balanescu on parole on April 1, despite his protests. It must be a pardon and a clear name or nothing,” the youth tells officials. “I can not accept a parole, which would appear to my friends to be an admission of guilt.” a tun HIS mother, Mrs. Anna .Balanescu of Cleveland, thares his view'. A native of Pails, she brought her son to America in order, she said, that he might have more opportunities and a better education. "Ermil is a good boy,” she says. “I don’t w r ant him to come back to me on a parole. He is innocent and I want the world to know it. “If my boy can’t get a pardon and a clear name, I would rather see him remain in prison for the rest of his life. Oh, why don’t they admit they w'ere wrong?” Balanescu was convicted of the sensational “love pill killing” of Dorothy Kirk, a stenographer. * THE state alleged he fed the girl strange “love potions” in a series of w r eird medical experiments until she died. He was studying pharmacy at the time. Quantities of strange herbs and drugs were found in his home. Since hio imprisonment he has continued the study of pharmacy, to which he is devoted. Balanescu has been a model prisoner. In his cell he has set up a shrine to his dead sweetheart. He keeps a light burning before her picture constantly and daily places fresh flowers before It. MOB VIOLENCE FEARED Officers Remove Negro, Suspected Slayer of Postmaster. By United Press TRAVARES, Fla., March 23. Threats of mob action against Henry Johnson, Negro, confessed slayer of A. B. LawTence, Cashia postmaster, caused officers to remove him from jail here early today. Lawrence was slain by a Negro attempting to rob the postoffice Saturday night.

Muncie Wins the Honors; and So Does the Times

To The Indianapolis Times and its enterprising sports staff goes all the credit for "sc xiping” its opposition from start to finish, on the state high school basketball tourney. On Feb. 16, Vern Boxell, assistant sports editor, who conducts "Off the Backboard,” famed basketball column, picked Muncie to win the state high school crown. He made no bones about it. He told everybody what to expect. Saturday night Muncie was crowned king of high school basketball teams. It was the second time in three years that The Times had predicted a winner. Its rivals each year had selected other teams. Last Sunday and Monday, The Times' "State Final Air Special,” piloted by Dick Arnett and carrying Dick Miller of The Times sports staff, dropped in on every one of the sixteen cities sending teams to the state finals basketball meet. The airplane jaunt put readers of The Tlmes*days ahead on information op the teams which were to

Will-Classify By United Press FT. WORTH, Tex., March 23. —Will Rogers Jr., son of the cowboy humorist, joined the ranks of wage earners today as an employe of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. Rogers’ first task was to decide which department of the newspaper he would work In. All branches were open to him, and although he declined to commit himself, he was reported looking with greatest favor on the classified advertising counter.

FLAYS PARENTS OF YOUNG THIEF Neglect Cited by Baker in Sentencing John Bucksot. Parents who neglect children and expect leniency from courts when the offsprings get into trouble, were scored today by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. In the case of John Bucksot, 20, who pleaded guilty before Baker today to a charge of petit larceny, the judge criticised the youth’s parents for neglecting the son, and declared that crime in many instances is fostered by inattention of parents. Bucksot was sentenced to serve ninety days on the Indiana state farm. He admitted stealing two rings from the apartment of Mrs. Irene M. King, 1220 North Illinois street, Feb. 4. Denying pleas of the parents, Baker said: “Too many fathers and mothers fail to take an interest in their children until after they get into trouble.” Baker meted a ten-year reformatory sentence to Charles Henry Brooks, 24, Negro, after finding him guilty of the robbery, Jan. 22, of Gaylord Overman, 51 East Thirtyfourth street, a meat truck driver. U. S. Consul Dies of Burns By United Press QUEBEC. March 23.—E. Haldeman Dennison, United States consul in Quebec for a number of years, died in the Jeffrey Hale hospital Sunday night fron burns received Friday when he fell into a bathtub of boiling w r ater in his apartment at the Chateau Fontenac.

battle at Butler field house. Miller and Arnett covered everything thoroughly. On Friday and Saturday, while the tournament was in progress, The Times and WFBM, radio station of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company,\ broadcast every play of every game in the tournament and the thousands of telegrams received is the grateful answer of I ans unable to buy tickets or come to Indianapolis for the prep classic. First o" the air; first in the air, first all the way, every way. And all during that time, The Times kept its columns clean of gambling information, trying to keep the blighting hand ©f betting crooks from the high school sport. And while The Times was leading the way at home in the basketball tournaments, Eddie Ash, sports editor of The Times, for the first two weeks of the Indians’ spring training, was the only Indianapolis newspaper man with the team. Leading the field—start to finish.

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CHEER HOOVER ON FIRST VISIT TO PORTO RICO Two Women Are Figures in Dramatic Incidents of Visit. GREETED BY ROOSEVELT' Enthusiastic Welcome Is Given Executive by Island Crowds. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, March 23. —President Hoover reached this island capital, one of the oldest cities of the new world, today for his first visit to the Caribbean domain of the United States. Two dramatic incidents marked the passage of the President’s party from Ponce, on the coast, where they landed from the battleship Arizona. At Cayey, an attractive woman dressed in black pushed her way to the Hoover car when it stopped, and thrust a letter toward the President. Mr. Hoover was about to take it when Colonel E. W. Starling of the secret service, intervened and seized it. The woman pleaded with him, but Starling explained he would j give it to the President. Cheers for Hoover The woman w r as Senora Zenaida Monserrate. Her letter asked the i President to pardon her son, Angel, , 21, who is serving a term in Joliet prison for manslaughter committed in Chicago. At San Juan, Rita Real, 80, pushed her way to the President and thrust out a withered hand. Mr. Hoover seized it graciously and shook it. Asked wha\, she wanted, she replied: “Only help.” The President reached here after a five-hour motor trip over the winding trail from Ponce, a road replete with picturesque tropical scenery. The passage was marked by enthusiastic demonstrations, crowds gathering at every stopping place to cheer. He was accompanied to the capitol by Governor Theodore Roosevelt. The road was lined for several miles with children, w’ho formed the | background of the entire welcome. A heavy shower just before the President’s arirval here failed to disperse the crowd. Hostile Handbills Appear Elements said to be nationalist sympathizers continued an apparently futile effort to inject hostility into the presidential reception until a few hours before the Arizona arj rived. Handbills were distributed in the towns through which the party passed en route to San Juan, describing Mr. Hoover as the head of ‘a capitalistic, plutocratic and socialist” Republican party. Much attention will be directed toward the i Sight of the children of Porto Rico during the two-day visit of the President, whose great interest in children was illustrated Sunday when he chatted by radio with his granddaughter, Peggy Ann Hoover, 6, who is at Asheville. Among the outstanding problems w’hich the President will consider at San Juan will be whether the island shall remain under the idministration of the-war departnent, or be given a civil administration, as was done recently In the Virgin islands. Administration officials indicated that the war department W'as not anxious to hold Porto Rico if a more economical administration can be devised. The departnent feels that its chief work was jioneering and that this task had been done. “Granddaddy—lt’s Snowing” The question of stimulating hand manufacture and agriculture was understood to have been studied" at length by Mr. Hoover, and the chief solution was believed to lie in the ability of the administration to “help the island help itself.” The President's radio talk with Asheville—l,4oo miles away—was first conducted with his son. Herbert Hoover Jr., and then with Peggy Ann. Her childish voice came from the loud speaker very' clearly. "Granddaddy, It is snowing here,” she said. “It Is very warm here,” the President said. He then asked her when she was returning to Washington and she said: “Tomorrow.” “Then you will be back a week ahead of me,” he told her. Young People to Meet By Times Special SPICELAND, Ind.. March 23.—A rally of Henry county young people will be held here this evening for the purpose of organizing them under auspices of the county council of religious education. The meeting was called by Wilbur Shirey of New Lisbon, chairman of the council. The principal speaker will be the Rev. Harry G. Rowe of Indianapolis, superintendent of the young people’s division of the state council. Former Governor Enters Purdue By United Press LAFAYT7TTE, Ind., March 23. Chase S. Osborn, former Governor of Michigan, has enrolled in Purdue university so that he might be initiated into Sigma Chi fraternity. When .Osborne attended Purdue, a member of the class of 1880, he was pledged to Sigma Chi, but never was initiated. Because an initiate of the fraternity is required to be a student of the university. Osborne enrolled. He is in an economic& class.

‘Young Teddy ’ Greets President

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In this stately old Spanish castle at San Juan, Porto Rico—now the official residence of the United States governor of the island—Colonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt are entertaining President

PARLEY IS HELD IN DEATH CASE Fate of Frank Scott May Be Decided Today. Fate of Frank Scott, South Bend Negro, sentenced to die in the electric chair at Indiana state prison Thursday at midnight, hinged on a conference of Scott’s attorneys with L. O. Chasey, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, at the statehouse today. According to plans completed Saturday, it appeared likely that the condemned man will be granted a reprieve, either by Governor Leslie or the supreme court. R. L. Bailey and R. L. Brockenburr, Negro attorneys of this city, conferred this morning with Chasey and Bert Walker, deputy attorney general. They have planned perfecting an appeal to the high court if stay of execution can be obtain. The conference was to be continued this afternoon, Scott’s attorneys asking a ninety-day stay. Scott was sentenced for the murder of Isham Hampton, Negro, whom he alleges stole his wife. His w r as the first death sentence In St. Joseph county in forty years. He was defended by Edwin Sommer, pauper attorney. Because he lacked funds, no motion for anew trial or appeal was taken. It has been customary to appeal death sentences, almost without exception, in Indiana courts. The Indianapolis attorneys pointed out that the 180 days for appeal have not yet elapsed, as Scott w'as sentenced Nov. 24, 1930. DELAY MURDER TRIAL OF YOUNG CITY WIFE Mrs. Marie Cole to Face Rushvilie Judge Tuesday in Male’s Death. By Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind., March 23. Postponement until Tuesday morning was agreed upon today by defense and state attorneys in the trial of Mrs. Marie Cole, 25, of Indianapolis, on a charge of being an accessory before the murder of her husband, Raymond I. Cole on a lonely lane near Greenfield last Halloween. Mrs. Cole’s crippled lover, Frank Jordan of Indianapolis, was convicted in Marion criminal court on a charge of murdering Cole and was sentenced to the Indiana state prison for life. BRITISH LEAD SHIPPING U. S. Second in Ocean Freight With Less Than Half Britain's Total. By United press WASHINGTON, March 23.—Great Britain in 1930 maintained her position as dictator of the world's merchant shipping, according to a report made public today by the United States shipping board. British merchant ships totaled over 18,000.000 gross tons, the board reports, with the United States in second position with less than half that amount. • Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 35 10 a. m 52 7a. m 39 11 a. m 54 Ba. m 44 12 (noon).. 54 9 a. m 48 1 p. m 56

Actress Stops Show, ‘Bawls Out' Audience

By United Press CINCINNATI. March 23.—Dora Maughan, singing comedienne, and Joe Cooks former leading lady, paused in her skit at the Albee theater here Sunday night to “talk things over” with a group of roisterers. “You’re rats.” said Miss Maughan after shouting to the electrician to “turn on house lights so we can show up those cowards out there.” The house lights went on. Miss Maughan's act continued. Then came another raucous call. Miss Maughan finished her song, then, in a brief speech, voiced her contempt for patrons who take advantage of actresses and actors who “are insulted while trying to make an honest living. ’

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Hoover, who visited them today on his vacation trip to the West Indies. Observe the striking resemblance of Colonel Roosevelt to his father, the late President, in the closeup of the governor at the right.

Wife Beater Sentenced to Whipping Post

By United Press BALTIMORE, March 23. —John Kowalski, sentenced by Judge Eugene O’Dunne to receive a flogging as a convicted wife beater, will be whipped in the city jail at 3:30 today. The thirty-day sentence which Judge O'Dunne also Imposed, was rescinded today, when O’Dunne issued a scathing attack on the press for publicity given the impending whipping. He said: “Such action seems advisable because the orderly processes of the court are being subjected to undesirable publicity of a low and vulgar order, by pictorial display in certain publications of photographs of a similar sentence imposed in 1926, which photographs ought never to have been taken or published. “They are not in accord with good journalism and are offensive to the orderly administration of criminal justice.”

STUDY AIRPORT TRAFFIC PLAN Sunday Crowd of Visitors j Presents Problem. Plans for reliering congested traffic conditions caused oy large crow'ds visiting Municipal airport on Sunday, were discussed today at a conference of airport officials and the works board. Several hundred cars, carrying approximately 5.000 persons, were at the airport to see planes land Sunday afternoon, Charles E. Cox, airport superintendent, said. Signs are being prepared to di- | rect all incoming traffic to the air- ; port from High School road by the j main entrance drive and all out- j going traffic south by the other airport drive to Southern avenue, i By following this plan of one- i way traffic, the usual jam at the, airport will be eliminated, Cox told j the board. Resolution advising the works department to prepare plans for widening and resurfacing of Pennsylvania street from Thirtieth to Talbot streets was adopted today by the works board. The board also approved plans for permanent improvement of Sixteenth street from Delaware to Illinois. SEARCH MISSISSIPPI FOR QUAKE SYMPTONS Valley Suffered One of Greatest Recorded Earth Shocks By United Press WASHINGTON. March 23—Jesuit scientists, with the assistance of delicate seismometers, are exploring the vast sub-surface of the Mississippi valley on a quest for earthquake symptoms. The region drained by the Mississippi w'as altered by one of the greatest of recorded quakes -120 years ago and the shock is known, for want of a better name, as the New Madrid disturbance. In 1811 there were few persons residing in the area and there was scant loss of life, but that series of three quakes lowered an area of 30.000 square miles from five to fifteen feet and raised the surface of smaller areas in proportion. Shoks were felt over two-thirds of the United States. BUS “extension "asked Ben Davis Line Would Continue to Municipal Airport. Petition to extend the Ben Davis bus line to the Indianapolis municipal airport, south of Ben Davis, wras filed with the public Service commission today by Tony Poparad, line operator. The petition carried a letter by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, recommending approval. Bar Admission Sought By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 23. Howard Long, deputy prohibition administrator for northern Indiana, has a petition on file asking admission to the St. Joseph county bar here.

WINKLER GIVEN FEDERAL POST Ex-Sheriff Named Alcohol Permit Inspector. Appointment of George L. Winkler, former Marion county sheriff and Republican politician, as an Indiana alcohol permit Inspector, un-

der the treasury' department, was announced today. Winkler left Immediately for Chicago for a conference with E. C. Yellow 7 ley in charge of operations in this district. Winkler will return Wednesday when he will begin his work as inspector. Selection of Winkler in some governmental de-

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partment, since he was defeated for re-election as sheriff last fall, has been anticipated. How'ever, government officials have denied repeatedly that Winkler was in line for an appointment. The Indiana inspection force is variable, as many as four haring served in that capacity at one time. Winkler will not be connected with the department of justice,, which now' controls prohibition enforcement. Winkler, one of the organizers of the Worley-Winkler detective agency, with Claude Worley, former police chief, will retain his Interest in the agency. Winkler formerly was deputy prohibition administrator for Indiana, and a police captain follow'ing several years in other posts on the force. KASSEY IS INDICTED Navy Dirigible Plot Charge Upheld by Grand Jury. By United Press AKRON, 0., March 23.—Paul F. Kassey, rivet inspector at the Good-year-Zeppelin air dock here, today w’as indicted by the Summit county grand jury on a charge of criminal syndicalism in an asserted plot to destroy the United States navy’s dirigible Akron. MERCURY IS ON RISE; RAIN COMING TUESDAY New High Mark for Season Established Sunday; Drop Due. Spring weather that Sunday sent motorists to the highways and byways and golfers to the links was to continue today, weather forecasters predicted. The mercury rose to 55 late Sunday, establishing: anew high for the season. During the winter the I mercury reached 61, on Jan. 24. ; The temperature may exceed this late today, it was predicted. Rain Is on the menu for Tuesday, according to the forecast, and will be accompanied by a slight drop in temperature.

Wife Lashes Rival, Fined; ‘lt’s Worth It’

i By United Press BROCKTON, Mass., March 23. —Mrs. Catherine Morrill was found guilty by Judge William G. Rowe in district court here today of publicly horsewhipping Mrs. Mae Andrews, divorcee. As Mrs. Andrews walked along Main street Tuesday, while many workers were en route to factories, Mrs. Morrill stepped from a doorway and lashed the plaintiff across the face and back, the marks made by the whip remaining for several days. Mrs. Morrill had accused Mrs. Andrew's of attempting to steal the affection of her husband, Walter Morrill. Mrs. Morrill took the attitude that the whipping was worth the . sls fine imposed.

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SEAT JURY TO TRY ACCUSED LINGLE KILLER Twelve Men Sworn In to Hear Case Against Leo Brothers. DEFENDANT NODS HEAD Favors Panel Which May Decide He Must Die as Murderer. BY WILLIAM E. HALLBERG United Press Staff Corresoondent CHICAGO, March 23.—A jury of twelve men. all of whom said they were ready to return a death verdict if the evidence justified, were obtained and sworn in today to try Leo V. Brothers, St. Louis gunman, on charges of mudering Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. Six days of detailed questioning were necessary before twelve men were found who met the approval of both state and defense. The jury, as sworn in, consisted of the following: Edward J. Brown, billboard poster; Herman Crotzer, machinist; Frank Edgeworth, machinist; Walter W. Graff, electrical foreman; Herman Isaacson, furniture firm employe; Kelsey Stone, glass cutter; Jacob M. Schlosser , pencil company employe: David Tateel, garage accountant: Herman Thompson, clerk; Edward Larson, unemployed carpenter; Philip Hagerman, street car motorman. and Lars D. Aadnescn, unemployed painter. Nods Head Emphatically The last four were accepted today after anew venire of 100 had reported. Only four men were questioned before the last panel was accepted. Before the defense indicated final approval, they conferred with Brothers, who nodded his head emphatically in accepting the jurors who will sit in judgment of his life. In questioning the last few talesmen, C. Wayland Brooks, assistant state's prosecutor, indicated the state will not attempt to prove a motive in the slaying of the reporter. "The state is not obligated to prove why Lingle was killed.’ 5 Brooks said. “It is sufficient to prove that he was killed and by whom. Under the law proof of motive is unessential.” Arrest Was Made Secretly The w-ay was cleared for the opening statement by Brooks, who will outline publicly for the first time the evidence which the state is so sure would mean Brothers’ conviction of committing one of the most sensational crimes in the history of Chicago. Brothers’ arrest last December was brought about by the board of strategy, a staff of three men who spent months investigating the crime and following clews to all corners of the country. The arrest was secret, and Brothers, a St. Louis man, was held prisoner for three weeks before he was paraded one midnight before, a group of newspaper men ajd pointed out dramatically “as he man who killed Afred Lingle.” HENLEY WILL GOBACII ON STAND WEDNESDAY Adjutant-General Again to Den? He Married Alleged Wife. By Times Special GREENFIELD, March 23.—Adm-tant-General Manford G. Henley will take the stand Wednc-Oay morning in Hancock circuit court to complete his testimony denying the allegation of Mrs. Ethel William Henley that they were married in Toledo Sept. 12, 1929. Evidence that she and the adju-tant-general were married was submitted by Mrs. Henley In her suit for S2OO a month support money and attorneys fees in the first two days of the hearing last week. The court was recessed until Wednesday while Henley was testifying in his own defense. SEES SON AFTER YEARS Veteran's Bonus Loan Makes Long Trip Possible for Mother. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 23. Twenty-nine years ago, Robert D. Shrier left his home In the Hudson Bay region to come to Washington. He had not seen his mother since then until Sunday, when she walked Into his delicatessen shop unannounced. The secret trip from Charlevoix, Mich., was arranged by Shrier’s son with funds from an adjusted compensation loan. PRINCIPALS WILL MEET Washington Superintendent to Address City School Heads. Ninety-three principals of Indianapolis public schools will be addressed at 2:30 Tuesday in Cropsey auditorium, public library, by Dr. Frank Ballou, Washington (D. C.) school superintendent, it was announced today by Paul C. Stetson, Indianapolis school superintendent. SPRING~FREES~NIAGARA Last, of lee Bridges Falls Front Cataract to Lower River. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y., March 23.—Spring hit Niagara Falls by releasing the last of the large ice bridges, formed at the cataract, every winter. It broke up suddenly and fell into the lower Niagara , sundajr.

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